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According to police interviews, 28-year-old Kevin Adorno, of Connecticut, was killed in the McDonald's parking lot Sept. 1 by 59-year-old Rene Herrera Cruz.

Cruz, originally from Cuba, confessed to Vero Beach police he thought all day that people were following him, and was especially concerned when he noticed cars in the parking lot that parked and yet no one got out to eat.

Cruz said he also noticed someone using a computer inside McDonald's that he believed was part of the plot, and heard customers tell him “they’re going to kill you.”

Video surveillance showed Cruz pacing outside the McDonald's; Cruz said noticed he Adorno ride up on his bicycle, go inside, and talk to the person on the computer.

Cruz said when Adorno came out to use the phone, he heard him say, “Go ahead, go ahead,” and thought he was directing a band of assassins to kill him. At that moment, Cruz said he saw someone else walking toward him, so he pulled out a fish filet knife and stabbed Adorno before the assassins could kill him.

Cruz ran from the parking lot, throwing the knife into the bushes.

He was apprehended across the street at a Burger King, where he told an employee to call 911, “Someone’s been hurt.”

Adorno, meantime, staggered inside the McDonald's, also asking someone to call 911 as he bled profusely from stab wounds to his chest and arm.

One witness tried to stop the bleeding by applying pressure to his wound but Adorno died despite paramedics arriving moments later.

Adorno was on a cross-country bicycle ride, and was carrying an engagement ring in his backpack, planning to propose to his fiancée when he reached Miami.